Where Are All The Long Islanders Moving To? (Syracuse, Chester: house, buy)

[dolphins]

Can anyone tell me where all the LI'ers are moving to? My husband and I are looking for a better quality of life. We would like changing seasons, but not a six month winter like we have here on LI. Thanks!

[ClarkStreetKid]

Living large and laughing easy in the Richmond VA metropolitan area.

[NYRN]

Everyone I know has headed south. Most of my family flocked down to Florida years ago with many other NY'ers. I've had a couple of friends move to N.Carolina and Georgia. My brother and his family are moving soon to the hamptons bay area of Virginia (near Virginia Beach) while my husband and I are strongly considering Dallas.

[NYC2RDU]

Raleigh, NC. Changing seasons, extended warm-weather seasons and culturally diverse population with very affordable housing.

[4StanleyCups]

Originally Posted by dolphins

We would like changing seasons, but not a six month winter like we have here on LI.

We have a 6-month winter???

Real winter weather (consistent cold temps and maybe some snow) usually doesn't kick in till sometime in December, and pretty much ends sometime in March.

Once in a while we'll get a Winter From Hell but otherwise the only really bad months are January and February.

Didn't we have a bunch of 50-degree days this past November, December, early February, and March? Even a few 60F if I recall correctly.

I'll be generous and say a 4-month winter at the max. With most of our snow coming in dribs and drabs a couple or 3" at a time, and then it warms up to 40F in a day or so and just melts to slush (with the occasional "big" storm that dumps what, 8" or maybe 10" - and not every year) we're hardly in the Great White North.

Seriously though, I guess it depends on how you define "winter".

To me, New England often has a 5- to 6-month winter (Nov through March, possibly into early April), 'winter' meaning pretty consistently below freezing and fairly reliable snowfall.

LI is often above 32F except in Jan and Feb.

[momix5]

I think I would go to either NC,SC FLA or PA.

[scammed]

Think twice about Texas.I am from the Island and have been here a long time. I still have not adjusted. I have a few friends who got divorced because their husbands refused to leave Texas and they could not take it. They just picked up and moved back east and left their husbands.

[rockypointny]

clarkstreetkid are you in the Chesterfield/ Midlothian area? We have friends who recently moved there and love it. We have strongly considered moving there as well it's really a beautiful area. Their development is nicer than any I have seen on LI, and at the price they paid, you couldn't buy a nice shack here. It's really unbelievable.

[clamboy]

Originally Posted by dolphins

Can anyone tell me where all the LI'ers are moving to? My husband and I are looking for a better quality of life. We would like changing seasons, but not a six month winter like we have here on LI. Thanks!

We're off to CT,the wealthiest state in America for relief.

Tolland county is a relative bargain.
Twice the house half the tax with better schools.
2hrs to NYC/90 Min to Boston/1 Hrs to the Beach

Sold

C

BTW

I think we have a modest winter.3 months at best, try Syracuse for a while....thats winter.

[baylovers]

Left for the SC coast.... good schools, fraction of the taxes and haven't heard a horn honk (or the accompanying middle finger wave) yet since I moved here a year ago.